Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border

A brilliant testament to the ethnographer’s art, the deeply rooted wisdom of an ＂ordinary＂ person, and the complex ways in which folklore figures in everyday life along the Irish border.

Ray Cashman is an associate professor of folklore at Indiana University. He is the author of Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border, which won both the Chicago Folklore Prize of the American Folklore Society and the Donald Murphy Prize of the American Conference for Irish Studies.